Markets ended the week on a strong note on account of sustained buying interest seen in scrips across sectors. Auto, oil & gas, banking and real estate stocks outperformed. Midcap and smallcap markets have outperformed the benchmark indices.

Markets steady: NTPC, M&M, Tata Steel top gainers

The markets continue to trade strong at the higher level. Auto, oil & gas, banking and real estate stocks have outperformed.

On the macroeconomic GDP numbers for Q1 came in strong at 9.3% and infltion came inline with market estimates of 3.94%.

Market trades strong: Auto stocks zoom

The markets are trading strong with hefty gains on heavy buying seen in scrips across sectors. Auto, oil & gas, banking and real estate stocks have outperformed.

At 1:28 pm, Sensex was up 200.48 points or 1.33% at 15322.22, and the Nifty up 40.85 points or 0.93% at 4453.15.

About 1867 shares have advanced, 1071 shares declined, and 78 shares are unchanged.

BSE Midcap was up 1.4% at 6574.19 and BSE smallcap was up 1% at 8025.99. Rupee is trading at 41.045 today after losing around 6 paise. Nifty Sep Future was at 30.7 points discount at 4420.

Reliance has touched a 52 week high of Rs 1,965. Reliance was trading at Rs 1,954.30 up 2.46%.

Tata Steel which has been buzzing for few days, touched an intra day high of Rs 677.45 and an intra day low of Rs 660. Steel prices have rebounded and are expected to remain firm going ahead. This will benefit steel stocks like SAIL, JSW and Tata Steel.

Top gainers on the Sensex are Mah and Mah at Rs 711.30 up 5.35%, Tata Motors up over 4%, Ranbaxy up 4%, Maruti Udyog up 3.5% and NTPC up 3.49%. 

Top losers on the Sensex are HDFC Bank, Hindalco, GlaxoSmith, GAIL and ITC.

TVS motors have been in limelight today on account of its announcement of taking Bajaj Auto head on by rolling out 7 new brand.

Mkts stable with good gains; RIL hits all time high

The markets are trading steady with significant gains. Nifty has hold above 4450 level. Auto, oil & gas, banking and real estate stocks are trading strong. Good buying is happening across the sectors with good market breadth.

At 12.21 hrs IST, the Sensex is up 202.15 points or 1.34% at 15323.89, and the Nifty up 51.40 points or 1.16% at 4463.70. About 1902 shares have advanced, 1021 shares declined, and 93 shares are unchanged.

Market breadth is positive with over 1900 stocks on the advancing side and around 1000 stocks on the downside.

BSE Midcap was up 1.4% at 6574.19 and BSE smallcap was up 0.9% at 8025.99. Rupee is trading at 41.045 today after losing around 6 paise. Nifty Sep Future was at 30.7 points discount at 4420.

Reliance has touched a 52 week high of Rs 1,965. Reliance touched an intra day high of Rs 1,965.00 and an intra day low of Rs 1,900.05. It is trading with volumes of 687,990 shares, compared to its 5-day average of 774,332 shares, an decrease of -11.15%.

Tata Steel which has been buzzing for few days, touched an intra day high of Rs 677.45 and an intra day low of Rs 660. It is trading with volumes of 677,344 shares, compared to its 5-day average of 1,471,964 shares, an decrease of -53.98%. Its 52 week high is Rs 731 and 52 week low Rs.

Top gainers on the Sensex are Mah and Mah at Rs 711.30 up 5.35%, Maruti Udyog at Rs 866.05 up 3.87% and NTPC at Rs 172 up 3.49%. 

Top losers on the Sensex are HDFC at Rs 1,979.80 down 0.31%.

TVS motors have been in limelight today on account of its announcement of taking Bajaj Auto head on by rolling out 7 new brand. The share was quoting at Rs 66.40, up Rs 5.40, or 8.85%. It touched an intra day high of Rs 67.80 and an intra day low of Rs 62.90. It was trading with volumes of 702,992 shares, compared to its 5-day average of 120,124 shares, an increase of 485.22%.

Mkts climb further; realty, auto stocks strong

The markets have climbed some more points from its opening levels on account of buying coming in auto, realty and pharma stocks. Market breadth was positive with on NSE over 750 stocks on the advance side and nearly 250 stocks on the downside. Volumes has picked up after slow start today.

At 12.10 pm, the Sensex is up 209.88 points or 1.39% at 15331.62, and the Nifty up 51.10 points or 1.16% at 4463.40. About 1921 shares have advanced, 1018 shares declined, and 77 shares are unchanged.

BSE Midcap was up 1.4% at 6574.19 and BSE smallcap was up 0.9% at 8025.99. Rupee is trading at 41.045 today after losing around 6 paise. Nifty Sep Future was at 30.7 points discount at 4420.

Top gainers on the Sensex are Ranbaxy Labs at Rs 388 up 2.66%, Tata Motors at Rs 699.80 up 2.63% and Mah and Mah at Rs 690.80 up 2.32%. 

Top losers on the Sensex are HDFC Bank at Rs 1,169 down 1.1%, HDFC Rs at 1,975 down 0.55% and Hindalco at Rs 158 down 0.28%.

Tata Steel have been rallying for past 3 days on the back of good consolidated results reported after Corus acquisition.

Reliance Industries has hit all time high today. Its was trading at 1939.70 up Rs 32.30. Its intraday high is Rs 1,944.40 and an intra day low of Rs 1,900.05. Other auto stocks have been doing extremely good since yesterday and BSE auto index was up 1.92% at 4868.49. Major gainers in this space were TVS Motors up 9.02% at Rs 66.50 and Amtek Auto up 3.28% at Rs 372.

Realty space was also buzzing today. Major gainers in this counter were Indiabulls Realestate at Rs 485.36 up 3.66% and Parsvnath up Rs 10.45 at Rs 304.45.

Most active shares on BSE are HDIL at Rs 541.10 with 482,420 shares, Reliance at Rs 1,919 with 111,935 shares and Orbit Corporation at Rs 463.60 with 445,890 shares.

Markets open flat; Auto, power stocks up

The markets have opened very flat today despite Asian markets doing well today. Auto and power stocks were in demand today in the opening trade, however, banking, cement pack was little subdued.

At 9:56 am, Sensex was up 37 points at 15,158 and Nifty was down 2 points at 4409. Major gainers were BHEL, ONGC, Ranbaxy, Tata Steel, M&M, Maruti, Bajaj Auto and Tata Motors. SAIL, Rel Comm, Reliance, HDFCBank, ICICI bank sterlite industries, ACC were down.

Asian markets: Japanese shares gained today as exporters such as Sony Corp. and Canon Inc. advanced strongly, although banking stocks such as Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group declined.

Japan's Nikkei surged 1.12% or 181.41 points at 16,335.23, Taiwan's Taiwan Weighted gained 1.01% or 88.36 points at 8,859.57, Hong Kong's Hang Seng rose 0.29% or 69.16 points at 23,553.70, Singapore's Straits Times advanced 1.30% or 43.18 points at 3,364.33 and South Korea's Seoul Composite was up 0.70% or 12.89 points at 1,854.59.

US markets: The Dow Jones industrial average was down 50.56 points, or 0.38%, at 13,238.73. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was down 6.12 points, or 0.42%, at 1,457.64. The Nasdaq Composite Index was up 2.14 points, or 0.08%, at 2,565.30
 
Market cues:

• FIIs net sell USD 47.5 mn in equity on Aug 29
• MFs net buy Rs 59.80 cr in equity on Aug 29
• NSE F&O Sep begins with Open Interest of Rs 59,220 cr Vs Rs 68,472 cr

F&O cues:

• Marketwide rollover at 82.3%, Nifty rollover at 70%
• Nifty Sep Futures at 59-point discount
• Nifty Futures add 38 lakh shares in total Open Interest
• 190 out of 195 stocks see over 60% rollover
• 181 out of 195 stocks see over 70% rollover
• 122 out of 195 stocks see over 80% rollover
• 30 stocks see over 90% rollover